John Ryan

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John Ryan

John leads the Global High Yield team in Active Strategies with responsibility for $8bn of AUM. John has managed the European High Yield portfolios since 2016 and the Developed Market ESG HY portfolios since 2018. Before this he was a Senior High Yield Analyst covering a range of global industries for more than a decade. John joined LGIM as a Quantitative Analyst in 2005 after graduating from Imperial College, London with a first class honours degree in Mathematics. With this background he developed and built the quantitative tools the team uses for credit research and portfolio construction. John holds the IMC qualification.

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Global high yield: Will this be a Goldilocks year?

As the rate cutting cycle continues, we think investors will look for income which could support high yield.

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Global high yield – ain’t no mountain (or wall) high enough

We believe the current environment remains favourable for high yield bonds. Worries over upcoming maturity walls are unfounded, in our view.

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High yield: the ugly duckling of the fixed income universe?

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